Holger Waechtler wrote:
This sounds like a good thing to me - hopefully, it'd save me 35% or idle CPU use (in the kdvb-fe thread) on my untunable DVB-S, which has no dish connected and is just for TV output. Not to mention a lot of heat :)I'd like to disable tuning at driver initialisation (saves about 50 lines of code) and enable power management by default in the frontend code (causes kdvb-fe not to run when frontend device is not opened).
The good thing is that the frontend thread won't run when no application requested tuning to a transponder <snip>One quick question though - will this change mean that the kdvb-fe zigzag scan will only run if the card is tuned, or that it will run if the frontend device is opened, even if no tuning is attempted?
I think, although I've not checked properly, that VDR opens the frontend device, even if the card is only for TV output. With the suggested patch, I presume that an open frontend device will be required for TV output anyway.
Ideally, it'd be nice if the zigzag scan only runs if a tuning is attempted. That may be for a later patch though :)
Some background on my problem which gives rise to this question: http://www.linuxtv.org/mailinglists/linux-dvb/2002/10-2002/msg00581.html
Cheers,
Mike Grant.
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